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I don't even know. This brain of mine...

Okay, so. I recently did a big reread of ( Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality )

More recently - including a few minutes ago, as I type this - I am also rereading ( an Avatar fic called Embers )

So. Brain being what he is, these two ideas are attempting to merge.

( By your powers combined, I am... Avatar: The Last Logician! )

Blargh.

So.

If we assume crossover between My Little Pony and Avatar: The Last Airbender...

Does the Pony Avatar's cutie mark light up when they go into the Avatar State?

Wow. Several greatnesses today.

First, my brother mikethecelloist has returned! After two years away, he's back!

Second, an Avatar sequel has officially been announced. "The Legend of Korra" is set to premiere sometime next year. Indications are that it will have much the same creative team, art style, and continuity as the Gaang's show.

Also, it appears EA is making a Spore-based online RPG. I know little about it so far, but the trailer's pretty neat.

Y'know what I think would be a really neat crossover fanfic idea?

Sokka somehow ends up in Hyrule, where he stumbles across a dying Link. He must take up the mantle of the Hero of [game topic] and defeat Ganon(dorf). Winning the love of the princess optional.

Think about it. He's already really good at two of Link's most famous things - the [special] Sword and the Boomerang.

I have recently been linked to the Felicia Day song "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?". Despite the huge following of stuff from Runescape and WOW that's been set to it, there's one notable lacuna.

Considering the sheer number of ATLA music videos, and the immense shipflail that's been going on continuously since the first episode aired, it's actually a little bizarre that the internet appears to contain only one combination of these concepts - in the form of a reference to the song, in a comment to the Last Airbender superbowl ad, postulating a director's cameo.

It would likely be brain-breaky to make or watch, but what internet person would let that stop them?

Brain, one thing at a time! I don't need yet another - this time completely gratuitous - Ghibli/ATLA crossover in the middle of plotting out a Ghibli/GS crossover.

Sheesh.

In other words, no, Pazu's town isn't built on the ruins of Ba Sing Se. Not this time.

From ceitfianna:

Comment and I'll give you three of your fandoms, then you copy and paste the questions into your own journal and answer them.

I was given Heroes, Discworld, and ATLA

( the answers lie here )

I find it interesting that I had to look up more spellings for Heroes than for either of the others.

I've long been fond of the idea of dropping character X into canon Y, especially when both X and characters from Y can manipulate elements. In fact, one thing I'd like to do in mixed_muses at some point involves sticking Felix into the Avatar world and have him need to figure out how to earthbend. And yet...

I've been reading a particular Golden Sun fanfic in which, for reasons that are unclear to me, several party members decide to enter Colosso (an annual gladiatorial contest that features in the first game). One of the battles pits Felix against Piers, his party's water-manipulator. Apart from the opening two moves, one of which could be an interpretation of in-game actions, it's move-for-move a plausible duel between a waterbender with an ice specialization and an earthbender. (In canon, the only movement associated with Psynergy is a raised hand, like so: ) Slamming one's foot into the ground to make a pillar to launch an opponent into the air... sending out a shockwave in all directions... covering the floor of the arena with water, then freezing it by switching hands... both wrists forward to send a shower of ice shards... All clearly bending-derived, and somehow it perturbs me. It appears that I'm less willing to deal with other people's concept-crossovers than with my own.

But enough of that. Memetime!

Meme the first: Pick one or more of my icons, and ask me about it. I'll be willing to explain where I got it, why I like it, what it means, and so on.

Meme the second: Sort us! Tell me what Hogwarts house you think I, or one of my characters, best fits. Explanations encouraged.

Hm. Images on my flist-view appear to be borked. The banner ad from the top shows up again where one of kippurbird's deviantArt pics should be, another is replaced by a youTube video adiva_calandia embedded in an entry that fell off the front page a while ago... Hm.

In other news, I've been continuing to (re)read the Deep Space 9 relaunch, and I've finally gotten to the point where I can get them directly from the local library system instead of Inter-Library Loans searching all over the country. Who knew Star Trek books aged so poorly? (For reference, these books have been coming out, a few per year, since 2001; the local library system has Book 1 of the two-book set that started it, and then... ah. Memory Beta tells me I'm mistaken; the majority were published 2001-04, with a gap and then a resurgence beginning last year. So the library is only actually missing the first two years.)

Also, some of you may recall that I'm watching Avatar. I'm now into season 3. ( My thoughts, let me show you them. )